The head of the Frente Amplio ticket for the general elections, Ada Colau, has lashed out at the Vox candidate, Santiago Abascal, whom she has accused of a "little cowardly right" after refusing to hold an interview with the content creator Jordi Wild, despite initially having agreed to it.
In a conversation this Thursday on Catalunya Ràdio, as reported by Europa Press, Colau criticized that the leaders of Vox "are apparently very brave to accuse the weakest and most vulnerable people in society as a whole," but that when they have to answer to the public, they choose to do so only in spaces where they can have it "all" under control.
The candidate recalled that she herself took part in an interview with Jordi Wild, which she described as especially demanding, and she stressed that Abascal "should feel more comfortable" in that podcast than she does, due to the affinity she perceives between the host and the leader of Vox.
"I find it especially incomprehensible that Mr. Abascal does not dare to go. It’s really that he has very little confidence in his ability to argue," Colau emphasized, who believes that Jordi Wild’s positions are closer to Abascal’s than to hers.
Criticism of the PSOE and economic management
The former mayor of Barcelona, too, has questioned the attitude of the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whom she sees as "too triumphant" about the evolution of the Spanish economy. She has admitted that positive measures have been promoted, some by Sumar, but she has stressed that fundamental issues such as inequality—aggravated, in her view, by the housing crisis—still have not been resolved.
Asked whether housing policy will be a non-negotiable condition for supporting a future government with the PSOE, Colau said it will be an "essential line" and pledged to fight tooth and nail to push forward laws that reflect the demands raised in the general strike this Wednesday.
She described this protest as a "turning point" and defended that citizen mobilization is a decisive lever for driving institutional changes, especially if it is organized together with forces such as Frente Amplio. In this context, she reproached the PSOE for "dragging its feet" on housing.
Mentions of Junts and the lefts
Regarding the statements by the head of list for Junts, Míriam Nogueras, who said that with her there would be no minister called Abascal nor a minister called Colau, the leader of Frente Amplio has expressed her concern because, in her view, Junts "in recent times has become accustomed to always voting with Vox and PP in Congress."
About the failed negotiations for the current head of list of ERC, Gabriel Rufián, to lead a unitary candidacy of the lefts, Colau has said that she has very clear that her true opponents are PP and Vox: "Now they won’t find me arguing with the lefts," she said, calling for strengthening cooperation between the various progressive candidacies.